Platycleis affinis

Species

711 recordings
11 trait measurements
1 references
3 specimens

Account

What the sources say about this taxon, as written.

behaviour · bio.acousti.ca

The calling song consists of a mixture of short echemes lasting less than 1 s and usually composed of fewer then 7 macrosyllables, and longer echemes lasting 1-5 s and composed of 8-50 macrosyllables. Each echeme usually ends witha. series of 2-9 microsyllables. The echemes are often grouped into one or two short ones followed by a long one, but sometimes they follow one another quite irregularly and occassionally there is a fairly regular sequence of long echemes with few short ones. Oscillographic analysis shows that opening hemisyllables are usually absent and that the closing macrosyllables usually last about 30-110 ms and are repeated at the rate of about 10-20/s. The microsyllables usually last about 3-15 ms and are repeated at the rate of about 17-45/s; the microsyllable sequence at the end of an echeme seldom lastsmore than 0.3 s. The echemes often begin quietly and the first one or two syllables are often shorter than the remaining ones. The intervals between echemes vary greatly: long echemes often follow short echemes witha n intervalof less than a secondor with no pause at all; intervals of a few seconds are common and sometimes there are longer intervals of 30 s or more.

this account at bio.acousti.ca

Acoustic traits

11 measurements across 9 traits. Each name links to its term in the audioBlast vocabulary.

Syllables per Echeme

<7, 8-50

2 measurements · Calling Call (long echeme), Calling Call (short echeme)

Echeme Duration

<1, 1-5

2 measurements · Calling Call (long echeme), Calling Call (short echeme)

Echeme closing microsyllables rate (Hz)

17-45

Calling Call

Echeme closing microsyllables (number)

2-9

Calling Call

Echeme closing microsyllables duration

0.03-0.015

Calling Call

Measurements

Every value behind the summaries above. Each links to its own record in the API, which carries the reference it was taken from.

TraitValueCallPartSexTemp.Source
Syllables per Echeme<7Calling Call (short echeme)Malebio.acousti.ca
8-50Calling Call (long echeme)Malebio.acousti.ca
Echeme Duration<1Calling Call (short echeme)Malebio.acousti.ca
1-5Calling Call (long echeme)Malebio.acousti.ca
Crepitation (Presence)AbsentMale; Femalebio.acousti.ca
Sound Production MethodElytral stridulation (Closing hemisyllable only)Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Duration (in Echeme)0.030-0.110Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme closing microsyllables rate (Hz)17-45Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme closing microsyllables (number)2-9Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Syllable Repetition Rate (in echeme) (Hz)10-20Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca
Echeme closing microsyllables duration0.03-0.015Calling CallMalebio.acousti.ca

Recordings

711 in audioBlast.

578:9 Platycleis affinis (787a) 8-Nov
127 s
W. J. Reynolds 1990-07-31 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
578:10 Platycleis affinis (787b) 8-Nov
409 s
W. J. Reynolds 1990-07-31 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
580:17 Platycleis affinis (798r3) 29-Nov
140 s
W. J. Reynolds 1990-07-23 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
899:9 Platycleis affinis (112r6)
16 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
136_2_Platycleis affinis
109 s
David R. Ragge 1974-08-28 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
420:8 Platycleis affinis(586r4)
341 s
W. J. Reynolds 1986-08-21 bio.acousti.ca listen › record
425:12 Platycleis affinis (606r9)
315 s
bio.acousti.ca listen › record
XC1161968 Platycleis affinis - calling song
10 s
Marta Granadina 2026-07-28 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1095325 Platycleis affinis - calling song
14 s
Julien Barataud 2025-08-23 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1095324 Platycleis affinis - calling song
44 s
Julien Barataud 2025-08-23 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1095320 Platycleis affinis - calling song
33 s
Julien Barataud 2025-08-27 xeno-canto listen › record
XC1095319 Platycleis affinis - calling song
39 s
Julien Barataud 2025-08-26 xeno-canto listen › record

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Specimens

Occurrences the recordings are of, in Darwin Core terms.

CatalogueInstitutionBasisSexLife stage
010210888NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010210889NHMUKPreservedSpecimen
010211063NHMUKPreservedSpecimen

References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

SourceIts nameIts rankIts familyRecord
iNaturalistPlatycleis affinisSpeciesTettigoniidaeiNaturalist/325322
bio.acousti.caPlatycleis affinisSpeciesTettigoniidaebio.acousti.ca/204

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

Bioschemas Taxon, as embedded
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